Overview of the SCRREEN project
The SCRREEN project (Solution for Critical Raw Materials – a European Expert Network) is developing a network to manage the sustainable supply of, and policy issues related to, the EU’s potential primary and secondary resources of critical raw materials. Primary resources refer to geological mineral resource and metal potential. Secondary resources refer to recycling and recovery of metal potential in waste, such as scrap and mine tailings.
The SCRREEN expert network was developed between 2016 and 2019. On the strong basis of this network, SCRREEN2 was launched in 2020. The SCRREEN2 consortium will continue to support Europe’s critical raw materials strategy and bring expert advice in support of decision-making at the EU level covering all the raw materials and their value chains screened in the 2020 assessment.
SCRREEN2 will last until 2023. The consortium consists of 29 partners from 11 countries. Funding was provided by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Objectives of the project
- Establish an EU Expert Network that covers the whole value chain for present and future critical raw materials.
- Analyse pathways and barriers for innovation, and identify the solutions for overcoming these barriers.
- Study the regulatory, policy and economic framework for the development of technology breakthroughs.
- Identify the knowledge gained over the last few years, and make this knowledge easily accessible.
Our involvement in the project
- We organise the strategic expert workshops to enable the gathering of feedback and inputs to support the activities of the technical work packages (WPs). The workshops will also serve as a mechanism to update experts on the project progress, and to endorse the findings from the WPs.
- We identify stakeholders and projects related to Europe’s critical raw material strategy for clustering activities, where knowledge and best practices will be shared between projects, and recommendations for future topics will be developed.
